So I’ve just been shown this great new site. It’s called FieldReports and it’s a unique place for both writers and reviewers.
On the outside, FieldReports is a contest, big enough to get a lot of people involved. On the inside it’s a community of writers and readers dedicated to great storytelling and to breaking down walls of human isolation.
It allows everyday people a chance to write about their experience and share what they’ve learned. Everything on the site is real and completely not fiction. It appears to me that for everyone who contributes a story, they have a chance to win $1000. The site gives away over $20,000 each month and they have a huge giveaway happening in the next 120 days.
It’s also a great way for writers to get published. Once you submit a story, it gets tossed in their huge list of stories that random people can select and publish into their own collection…
Choose your favorite FieldReports from the site, the top FieldReports, or create a book of your own FieldReports for you, your friends or your family. Choose a special interest and make a collection. You write the introduction. You choose the book cover. FRBooks will publish it for you and send it.
FieldReport writers will earn a 15% royalty of the net revenues from every FRBook sold, based on the number of words they contributed.
You don’t have to be a contributor to take part in this service either. You can sign up to be a reviewer and help choose which story gets picked for the $1000 prize each month.
I’m still looking around the site, so I can’t tell you everything about it, so I suggest going over and looking for yourself. There’s a Quick Start Guide that gives basic rundown of what they do, but I found more information just searching through the site than using their guide. But it is a good place to start.
